Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 2TB SSD

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte AORUS Gen5 10000 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

Gigabyte's AORUS Gen5 10000 comes in a compact, well-built box that just has the Aorus logo on it. The box has an outer sleeve that has the AORUS logo and drives name on the front. The back of the sleeve has multilingual details about the drive interface and Sequential read/write speeds.

The drive sits firmly in a plastic shell that slots into a high-density foam insert in the box. Under the drive, also sitting in high-density foam, is the huge cooler that Gigabyte provides with the drive.

The 2TB AORUS 10000 is built on a two-sided M.2 2280 format. One side holds the Phison PS5026-E26 controller, two packages of Micron 232-layer 3D TLC NAND Flash and one of the two 2GB LPDDR4 chips used to hold the mapping table. The other side of the PCB holds the remaining NAND packages and the second LPDDR4 IC.

Phison's PS5026-E26 is the first consumer Gen5 controller. The 8-channel controller is built on a 12nm process supporting up to 32TB of TLC or QLC NAND flash memory with data transfer speeds of up to 2400 MT/s. The controller uses dual Arm Cortex-R5 cores that work together with Phison’s specialized accelerators from its CoXProcessor 2.0 family. The controller supports Phison's 5th Generation LDPC ECC engine.

Gigabyte bundles a massive cooler with the drive that takes the total drive package dimensions up to 92 x 23.5 x 44.7mm (LxWxH) from the standard 80 x 22 x 2.3 mm, so you really do need to check all relevant motherboard clearances before installing the beastie.

The M.2 Thermal Guard XTREME uses two heat pipes and a stacked fin array, both with a Nanocarbon coating for maximum heat dissipation efficiency.  The cooler comes in two parts, the fin array and the tray that holds the drive. Four very small screws are used to fix the two together. The drive is sandwiched between two dual-sided high-conductivity thermal pads that help transfer the heat to the stacked fin array.

The drive is supported by the SSD Tool utility in Gigabyte's comprehensive Control Center app. The utility supports real-time data on the performance, thermal stability and capabilities of the SSD.

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